The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-03-11

DOMESI'll, ECONOMY.
Bensfts Of Cold Air-Hinfs on Diet and
DieestIon-Cars Of the Hands.
second WANING Of Your First wiEe-some
Of the Excellent Properties 81 Salt.
HINTS on HEALTH

Of the E1eslisnt Properties o. salt.
HINTS on HEALTH
The benefits Of cool air are not uni
yersally appreciated. A good many
people are afraid of It, especially at
night, shutting themselves in close bed
rooms, where their systems are poison
ed and constitutions gradually under
mined by breathing the bad air. And
even hot or warm air that is pure-air
in room that has ventilation as well
as heats facilitating where breathed
all night.
The evidence that pulmonary COM
plants are inevitably and exclusively
caused by foul indoor air and cured BY
pure, especially by cold pure. outdoor
air, can grow convincing 70 8 degree
almost Affective to . philAnthpopisf,
who must often feel ike . Traveller see
ing his companions cropping in the
gloom Of a subterranean labyrinth,
and refusing to follow the clew that
has led him back to the sunshine Of the
upper world. The remedial influence
of fresh air is so much increased by a
low temperature that '.coIds" are in
fact far more durable in midwinter than
in midsummer. was shot through
the lungs in Mexico and have ever since
been susceptible to the contagiOn Of q
"catarrh factory" as friend of mine
calls the unventilated school-rooms and
meeting houses Of our country towns.
In warm weather / avoid such man
traps as / would the pit Of q gas well,
but in winter risk their infection in
the assurance that their influence can
be counteraeted by an extra dose Of ice
air. On returning from a crowded
lecture hall, a sitting sick room,
stuffy omnibus, ETC., remove my bed
to the draft side of the house and open
a window to the full capacity of its me-
chanism, taking care to go to sleep
facing the draft / have often awak-
ened in the morning with my hair
grizzled with hoar frost, but without
the slightest vestige of the catarrh
which had announced its approach the
night before.
Cold is an antiseptic and powerful
digestive stimulant; and / here record
the prediction that the hospitals of the
future will be ice-houses. Dyspepsia,
catarrh, and feyers of all kinds can be
frozen out of the system. Not by let
ting the patient shiyer in a snow bank,
but by giving him an extra allowance Of
warm bed clothing, with the additional
luxury of breathing ice-cold air, which,
under, such circumstances, becomes as
preferable to hot miasma as cold spring
water to warm ditch water. I have
also found that the best brain work can
be done in q cold room, and that stove
heat has a tendency to stupefy like q
narcotic beverage. Warm wraps make
fires tolerably, dispensable. -.
With regard to diet; where it is limit
ed to natural food there is no danger of
eating too much. Where stimulants
and highly-seasoned foods are eaten, it
is a different matter. A man with a
natural appetite may eat his plain,
wholesome food without fear Of over
stepping the proper limits; the one who
stimulates and lives high is always
oVerstepping them and is never salts
fed.
A child instinctively turns with dis
gust from the CORY carcasses of a
slaughter-house; but who ever heard of
a youngster shuddering at sight of q
honeycOmb or a nest full of eggsa 1
can rarely eat meat of any kind without
paying the penalty in a feeling of gas
trio distress. followed by more or less
distinct nausea and troubled dreams.
But the closest observation has never
enabled me to notice such symptoms of
an after effect of an omelet or piece
of bread and butter. The
sweltering noon is not a favorable time
for repletion, nor is the early morning,
when the energies of the system should
not be unduly monopolized by the work
Of digestion. Aheavy breakfast handi-
caps a worker for the rest of the fore
noon. OF all the wretched slaves of
conventional abuses the most to be
| pitied are those who have to bolt their
| dinner in a minimum of time and
hasten back to their drudgery, and oft
en- to temperature that must tempt
them to barter a week of their lives
for an hour of undisturbed sleep. A
light breakfast and late dinner surpris-
ingly ease the burden of the hottest
working-day. / never take MONDAY
lunch, and in special exigencies sort
of instinct has often prompted me to
dispense with my regular breakfast,
too, and go to work after chewing up a
fraction of hard crust or q couple of
dried prunes. z4ag s.sa .... a.
Early rising, carried to extremes, inn
pairs the vitality. Iwould as soon rob
child of its food or its clothing as to
deprive it of sleep in the morning
hours when digestion is finished and
dreams become sweet For orphans
for know from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
land excursions are often for years the
best refuge from the realities of Christ
ian civilization. Herald Of Health.
THE CARE OF THE HANDS.